Acquisitions and divestitures
OpenText has acquired several businesses over the past two decades, beginning with IXOS Software AG in 2003,[24] followed by Artesia in 2004.[25] Other notable acquisitions include Hummingbird Ltd. in 2006 for $489 million,[26] Captaris Inc. in 2008 for $131 million,[27] and Vignette Corporation in 2009 for $321 million in cash and stock.[28]
In the early 2010s, it acquired StreamServe Inc. for $71 million,[29][30] EasyLink (2012) for $232 million,[31] and GXS Inc., which had previously acquired Inovis, integrating the latter into the OpenText Business Network, which later acquired Inovis.[32] In 2014, OpenText purchased Cordys for $33 million,[33] and Actuate of San Mateo, California.[34] The following year, it acquired Daegis for $13.5 million.[35]
After Hewlett-Packard split into two companies, HP Enterprise and HP Inc., OpenText acquired HP customer experience content management from HP Inc. for approximately $170 million in April 2016.[36] On September 12, 2016, OpenText further expanded its share of the enterprise content management software market by buying that division of Dell EMC, which included Documentum, for US$1.6 billion.[37] OpenText had originally had Documentum and Hummingbird, Ltd., as its chief competitors in this space, but this acquisition brought the long-time third competitor in Documentum under one corporate roof.[38][39] Also in 2016, OpenText acquired Recommind after previously engaging with the company as a strategic partner.[40]
In 2017, OpenText acquired both Guidance Software for US$240 million,[41] and Covisint for US$103 million, which they integrated into their OpenText Business Network.[42][43] In 2018, OpenText acquired Liaison Technologies for US$310 million and integrated Liaison into their OpenText ALLOY Platform.[44]
By early February 2019, OpenText acquired Catalyst Repository Systems.[45] That same year, OpenText also acquired Carbonite Inc. (including Webroot and Mozy, which Carbonite Inc. had earlier acquired) for approximately US$1.45 billion.[46][47] The following year, OpenText acquired Xmedius for US$75 million.[48]
OpenText announced the planned acquisition of Zix Corp for US$860 million,[49] and in November 2021, OpenText completed the acquisition of Bricata enabling next-generation Network Detection & Response (NDR) technology to the OpenText Security and Protection Cloud.[50]
In 2022, OpenText announced it would acquire British software firm Micro Focus in a deal valued at US$6billion, which finalized in January 2023.[51][52] With the acquisition, OpenText also acquired a number of companies under Micro Focus, including Borland, HPE Software, and Interset.[53][54]
In May 2024, OpenText divested its Application Modernization and Connectivity (AMC) business (former Micro Focus unit) to Rocket Software for US$2.28 billion.[55][56]
In October 2025, OpenText announced the sale of its eDOCS business unit to NetDocuments for $163 million in cash.[57]
